dunce
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It’s about as academically relevant to today’s students as Sadie Hawkins Day, and as necessary as a dunce cap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
If you do think that he could, please step forward and claim your complimentary dunce cap, and infuse it with your own naivete.
From Salon ● May 5, 2023
Recall children in dunce caps, perjurers in pillories, adulterers branded with scarlet letters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
No word on whether a dunce cap has been issued.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2021
“Dunce, dunce, use your brains and do it right for once”? No help.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
You there, yes you, the one sitting in seat 11E; you’re no better than the doomed dunces coming to see this production of “Fossil Fools.”
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
People who say L.A. has no seasons are unobservant dunces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2021
So instead of bridging that expertise gap, surrounding himself with proficiency, he’s done the opposite: boost his own comparative abilities by surrounding himself with a confederacy of dunces.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2020
The internet abets the problem, he says: Unfiltered by editors, it levels the playing field between experts and "dunces."
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 2, 2020
“Okay, then, us two dunces are going to find a way out of this place.”
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
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